A major breakthrough in the struggle to help thousands fleeing #Sudan conflict
— Marie-Helene Verney (@MarieHVerney) January 2, 2024
A new extension site in Renk opened today: it can receive up to 30,000
Thank you to all the partners that have been working throughout the festive season to make it happen
470,000+ have arrived to… pic.twitter.com/cLbDGFEcNU
Sudan Watch - December 16, 2023
South Sudan: IOM, UNHCR concerned about risks relocating refugees & returnees from border areas
According to the UN, more than 438,000 people have arrived in South Sudan to escape the conflict in Sudan since April, of which 365,000 South Sudanese and 71,000 refugees. More than 24,000 refugees are stuck in Renk to the refugee camps in Maban County, Upper Nile State due to the current conditions. The road from Maban to Renk has been destroyed by the rains and while UNHCR is currently working on repairs, it has been requesting that the relevant ministries, as well as the private sector, take their share of the works.
Full story: https://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2023/12/south-sudan-iom-unhcr-concerned-about.html
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Sudan Watch - December 13, 2023
Sudan & South Sudan: Cholera crosses the Sudanese border and bursts into South Sudan refugee camps
At the Renk Transit Center, which has a capacity of 3,000 people, there are more than 16,000 current residents, and the roads that connect this out-of-the-way corner to the rest of the country are waterlogged by floods caused by end-of-summer rains. Renk’s risk lies in the fact that this [Vibrio cholerae] bacillus is transmitted through contact with contaminated foods and liquids, in conditions of overcrowding and lack of safe access to water and sanitation. Read more in this report.
Full story: https://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2023/12/sudan-south-sudan-cholera-crosses.html
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Sudan Watch - December 10, 2023
Sudan & S. Sudan: From faculties to refugee camps: War has displaced thousands of university students
"The Renk Transit Center [in South Sudan] does not qualify as a refugee camp. It’s a settlement designed as a transit point for about 3,000 people, but Renad, Nyamiji, Nosemba and Emam have been stuck here for several months. More than 18,000 souls are crowded together, due to the incessant flow of arrivals from the neighboring country [Sudan] and the impossibility of transferring refugees to more suitable places. Seasonal rains have flooded and cut off entire roads. Here, the living conditions are dire, because everything is lacking: shelters, clean water, enough food, adequate sanitation, health and educational services". Read more.
Full story: https://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2023/12/sudan-s-sudan-from-faculties-to-refugee.html
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Sudan Watch - November 18, 2023
100 returnees in Unity State head back to transit camps near South Sudan-Sudan border citing hunger
A hundred South Sudanese who recently returned from Sudan to escape violence are now returning to Sudan due to a worsening humanitarian crisis and hunger in Unity State. Residents in Unity State reported to Radio Tamazuj that the returnees are heading back to Renk and Thuongor transit camps near the South Sudan-Sudan border and the road leading to the Unity oilfield.
Full story: https://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2023/11/100-returnees-in-unity-state-head-back.html
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Sudan Watch - November 15, 2023
South Sudanese head home from war-torn Sudan
Many people displaced by Sudan's conflict arrive in Renk, South Sudan, where rains have turned the dusty land into mud.
The majority of those fleeing Sudan arrive through a border crossing near Renk in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State - where the rainy season has turned the dusty land into a muddy mess. Many of the newcomers are hungry, sick and exhausted. One in five children and more than a quarter of pregnant and breastfeeding women screened at the border are malnourished. “It was a very hard journey. We didn’t have anything; no food, no water, no shelter, nothing. It was especially bad when it rained,” says South Sudanese mother Nyanchiu Pehok, who recently arrived in Renk with her eight children.
Full story: https://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2023/11/south-sudanese-head-home-from-war-torn.html
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Sudan Watch - March 22, 2020
South Sudan: a country on its knees - millions of lives at stake as ‘unity government’ announced
It’s undoubtedly a country on its knees, aptly described by one commentator as a “kleptocracy gone insolvent”, but also a place full of youthful ambition, its average age just 18. In a tarpaulin-clad clinic run by Medair on the outskirts of Renk, a market town in the north of the country, dozens of pregnant young women queue for check ups. Since the end of 2013, conflict has cost almost 400,000 lives and left six million people, of a population of 11 million, desperately hungry
Full story: https://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2020/03/south-sudan-country-on-its-knees.html
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Sudan Watch - March 21, 2020
South Sudan: UN report finds all sides of conflict guilty of starving their citizens, govt embezzled funds. Govt struggles to merge soldiers under peace deal
On Thursday, the same day the rival leaders agreed to proceed with implementing the peace deal, the UN released a new report. It finds that all sides of the conflict were guilty of starving their citizens and that the government had embezzled funds that could have gone toward humanitarian support.
Full story: https://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2020/03/south-sudan-un-report-finds-all-sides.html
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